Accept / Decline Acceptance Page Goes Live at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

I shouldn’t keep doing this, but I can’t help it because it’s too easy. The School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis routinely has a log-in page for students who received acceptances to accept or decline their offer for admission to the vet school. Being a website, that must get programmed before the offers go Read More …

You Failed or Withdrew from a Class (or 10) — Now What?

Many people who are interested in applying to veterinary school look at their transcript(s) and wonder whether it will be a waste of time to apply in the first place. Afterall, an application cycle means spending quite a bit of money, a lot of time writing and preparing an application, and even more time waiting. Read More …

UC Davis: You’ve Got an Interview, Now What are Your Chances of Getting Accepted

Congrats to those of you who have received interview invites to the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. Those invites are quite coveted and represent a huge accomplishment! You might be half-optimistically wondering whether that invite means anything, so let me tell you — it does! The School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis Read More …

Vet School Interview: ETHICAL Questions

UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is known for asking ethical questions during the 25-minute interview with prospective students. These questions can vary depending on the field of vet med that the prospective student is hoping to pursue (and likely has experience in). To be perfectly honest, I did not receive an ethical question during Read More …

Interview Invites @ UC Davis

To the ~220 of you out there that are lucky enough to have received an interview at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine this year — Congratulations! It’s an exhilarating feeling to receive an invitation, but it may often be followed with a feeling of absolute terror. That’s why, for those of you who are Read More …

When Panic Sets In…

I turn to my blog. This is not usually the case, but after going from 8am-5pm straight and no end to the madness in sight, it helps to take a break. I will be spending every waking moment for the next 2 weeks, studying (or eating while studying). After hearing from upperclassmen that Winter Quarter Read More …

Deciding Where to Go to Vet School

So you happen be in the envious position of having to decide between multiple schools that graciously accepted you into their program. Now what? My advice on what to consider before ultimately deciding which veterinary school to attend: Read More …

The Interview

I know from perusing the Student Doctor Network Pre-Veterinary Forum that many schools have already started sending out invitations for interviews. For those of you who receive them – Congrats! It’s one of the most exciting and yet terrifying feeling to get that invite, so I’ve got some advice for you. When You Receive an Read More …

A Message to Non-Traditional Applicants (like myself)

Dare to be different. Admissions committees are not judging applicants based upon how badly they want to get into veterinary school or how long they’ve been working towards that goal. Believe it or not it can strengthen your application if you show that you haven’t always been interested in veterinary medicine or that you’ve tried Read More …

Managing Transcripts

Along with submitting an application via VMCAS, you are required to submit an official transcript from every school you ever attended to the vet schools you are applying to. In addition, VMCAS requires that you enter in each individual course and course information into VMCAS, a tedious process. With that in mind, do not wait Read More …